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Chp 5- Anxiety
Abnormal psychology- Anxiety Disorders
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fear | innate almost biologically based response to a dangerous or life-threatening situation. |
| Anxiety | More future-oriented and global (than fear), referring to the state in which an individual is inordinately apprehensive, tense, and uneasy about the prospect of something. |
| Anxiety Disorders | Incapacitated by chronic and intense feelings so strong that they are unable to function on a day-to-day basis. |
| Panic Disorder | People experience panic attacks, periods of intense fear, and physical discomfort, in which they feel overwhelmed and terrified by a range of bodily sensations that causes them to feel they're loosing control (shortness of breath, dizziness, sweating). |
| Unexpected (uncued) Panic Attack | No situational cue or trigger. |
| Situationally Bound (cued) Panic attack | Happens in anticipation of confronting a particular situation or immediately following exposure to a specific stimulus or cue in the environment. |
| Agoraphobia | Intense anxiety about being trapped, stranded or embarrassed in a situation without help if a panic attack were to occur. |
| Anxiety Sensitivity Theory | People with panic disorders tend to interpret cognitive and somatic manifestations of stress and anxiety in a catastrophic manner. |
| Benzodiazepines | Anxiety medications that bind to receptor sites of GABA neurons. |
| Combined Fear Reactants | Individuals associates certain bodily cessations with memories of the last panic attack, causing full blown one even before it happens leading to avoidance behavior. |
| Relaxation Training | Used in panic disorder and agoraphobia. Client learns systematically to alternate tensing and relaxing muscles all over the body. |
| Panic Control Therapy (PCT) | The development of the awareness of bodily cues associated with panic attacks and breathing restraining. |
| Aversions | Responses of discomfort or dislike. |
| Specific Phobia | Irrational and unbating fear of a particular object, activity, or situation that provokes an immediate anxiety response. |
| Flooding | The client is totally immersed in the sensation of anxiety rather than being more gradually acclaimed to the feared situation. |
| Imaginal Flooding | Imagine what scenes look like. Exposure to threatening situations while in a safe context will condition the client to confront the target of phobia without feeling unduly anxious. |
| Graduated Exposure | Clients initially confront situations that cause only minor anxiety and then gradually progress toward those that cause greater anxiety. |
| Thought Stopping | Individual learns to stop anxiety-provoking thoughts. |
| Social Phobia | Tremendous anxiety in speaking in front of a group and also in virtually all situations in which others might be observing them. |
| Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Constant feature of everyday life. Applies to a category of anxiety-related experiences. |
| Obsessions | Persistent and intrusive idea, thought, impulse, or image. |
| Compulsion | A repetitive and seemingly purposeful behavior performed in response to uncontrollable urges according to a ritualistic or stereotyped set of rules. |
| OCD | Either or both recurrent obsessions and compulsions that interfere significantly with the individual's way of life. |
| Acute Stress Disorder | Individual develops feelings of intense fear, helplessness, or horror soon after a traumatic event. |
| PTSD | Acute stress disorder that persists for more than a month. |
| Traumatic Experience | Disastrous or an extremely painful event that has severe psychological and physiological effects. |
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